Alex Descas
Ezaguna: Acting
Urtebetetzea: 1958-01-01
Jaioterria: France
Ezaguna ere:
Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique...
Askatu : 2004.03.12Ospea : 11.724
Never Twice
After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing virility.
Askatu : 1995.01.01Ospea : 0.927
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial...
Askatu : 2021.11.07Ospea : 1.667
The Limits of Control
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and...
Askatu : 2009.05.01Ospea : 6.833
Irma Vep
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les...
Askatu : 1996.10.01Ospea : 7.299
The House
A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single...
Askatu : 1997.10.01Ospea : 1.693
35 Shots of Rum
A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.
Askatu : 2009.02.18Ospea : 4.576
Rapt
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the...
Askatu : 2009.11.18Ospea : 3.29
Trouble Every Day
Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane...
Askatu : 2001.07.11Ospea : 8.445
I Can't Sleep
Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly...
Askatu : 1994.05.18Ospea : 2.625
Last Harem
A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Askatu : 1999.11.24Ospea : 5.6
Africa Dreaming
A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa."
Askatu : 1997.01.01Ospea : 0.731
Against Oblivion
Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...
Askatu : 1991.12.11Ospea : 2.384
The Dope
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their...
Askatu : 2003.02.05Ospea : 5.922
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice...
Askatu : 2000.05.13Ospea : 2.16
Persecution
The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to...
Askatu : 2009.10.17Ospea : 4.713
Late August, Early September
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
Askatu : 1999.02.10Ospea : 2.909
A Perfect Couple
A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding. They announce to another friend they are having...
Askatu : 2005.09.14Ospea : 1.172
No Fear, No Die
Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
Askatu : 1990.09.05Ospea : 5.557
Vers Nancy
A train conversation between an immigrant French woman and novelist Jean-Luc Nancy centering on the idea of intrusion within every foreigner (a more...
Askatu : 2002.09.02Ospea : 0.152
Bastards
Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is...
Askatu : 2013.08.07Ospea : 7.348
The United States of Albert
Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.
Askatu : 2005.04.08Ospea : 1.458
The Syringe
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets',...
Askatu : 1984.11.14Ospea : 1.696
My Family's Honour
In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her rainy Roubaix, her heavy guys and her lousy prospects....
Askatu : 1997.01.02Ospea : 1.182
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Yves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of Mr. Moreau, a rich public works contractor. His...
Askatu : 1998.08.12Ospea : 0.885
How Good the Whites Are
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger...
Askatu : 1988.01.20Ospea : 2.637
La nuit sera longue
It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of...
Askatu : 2003.11.24Ospea : 0.6
The Great White of Lambarene
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood...
Askatu : 1995.04.26Ospea : 0.816
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short...
Askatu : 2002.09.03Ospea : 3.331
Murder in Pacot
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when...
Askatu : 2014.09.05Ospea : 1.561
Which Way Africa?
Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.
Askatu : 2024.02.16Ospea : 0.666
Urgence
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with...
Askatu : 1985.06.29Ospea : 3.56
In a Memory of a Film Gone By
A film about the creation of director Šarūnas Bartas's feature film and the mysterious atmosphere of the filming location.
Askatu : 1998.01.01Ospea : 1.057
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through...
Askatu : 2002.04.03Ospea : 0.68
Nèg maron
Two childhood friends, Joshua and Flint, are adrift in boredom in their area of Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe. They're involved in petty theft and ordinary...
Askatu : 2005.01.19Ospea : 0.822
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
In the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya drought is a menace to both humans and animals. This documentary follows two Elephant Guardians in...
Askatu : 2024.03.19Ospea : 1.475
L'Homme qui venait d'ailleurs
At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a...
Askatu : 2004.12.06Ospea : 0.649
Madeleine d’entre les Morts
In Madeleine Among the Dead, Bonello wanted to tell Hitchcock’s Vertigo from the perspective of Madeleine (played by Kim Novak), not Scottie...
Askatu : 2014.10.03Ospea : 1.013
L'Intérêt d'Adam
4-year-old malnourished Adam is admitted to hospital off the back of a court ruling. Head paediatric nurse Lucy allows Adam’s mum Rebecca to...
Askatu : 1970.01.01Ospea : 1.806
Metropole
Having arrived in Paris in 1985, Hector did everything to be like “them”. In a notebook he finds in his flat, he crosses out a list of...
Askatu : 2017.01.01Ospea : 0.535
Un enfant en danger
Rebecca is a cop in the Juvenile Division. One day, Mathieu Francoeur comes to the station, saying his son, Joachim, has been kidnapped by his mother...
Askatu : 2013.09.15Ospea : 1.226
Chocolat
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer...
Askatu : 2016.02.03Ospea : 6.497
Let the Sunshine In
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Askatu : 2017.09.27Ospea : 5.254
Volontaire
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a...
Askatu : 2018.06.06Ospea : 6.338
In Your Dreams
Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj,...
Askatu : 2005.04.13Ospea : 2.146
Nord-plage
Portrait of Nord-Plage, a small neighborhood in the north of Martinique, which is slowly dying, and its last inhabitants, who have put aside their...
Askatu : 2004.10.07Ospea : 1.271
Maya
The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in Syria and then heads to India after months in...
Askatu : 2018.12.19Ospea : 4.18
Clubbed to Death
A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled...
Askatu : 1996.06.25Ospea : 1.664
Tag!
"Tag!" - About the American malaria researcher Nkruma who arrives with a family to Gothenburg for a lecture at Sahlgrenska Hospital. Nkruma ends up...
Askatu : 2007.01.24Ospea : 1.281
Voilà l'enchaînement
With two actors and no sets, master filmmaker Claire Denis traces the arc of a strained relationship, with a focus on race and language. In this...
Askatu : 2014.09.07Ospea : 0.835
Nenette and Boni
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He...
Askatu : 1997.01.29Ospea : 3.157
The Intruder
An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.
Askatu : 2005.05.04Ospea : 3.616
The Absence
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Askatu : 1993.01.20Ospea : 1.556
Boarding Gate
A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of...
Askatu : 2007.08.22Ospea : 6.882
Un si joli bouquet
A young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and corruption. Three days before her television appearance,...
Askatu : 1995.09.20Ospea : 0.344
Duo
One of a series of short films inspired by paintings. In this video, Jacques de Loustal's Le Contemplatif or "Duo".
Askatu : 1995.04.04Ospea : 0.612
Portrait of the Artist
A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to...
Askatu : 2015.03.15Ospea : 2.247
Gone
Thomas, an architect, discovers that he made a serious mistake on a building site. As he attempts to destroy compromising documents, it is the world...
Askatu : 2017.09.13Ospea : 0.422
Négropolitain
Carl is about to spend his first day with the police. To facilitate his entry into the trade, the divisional commissioner assigned him with Alain, a...
Askatu : 2008.12.30Ospea : 1.085
The Heart's Cry
This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him from Africa to Paris, France. Moctar, a boy whose...
Askatu : 1995.04.05Ospea : 2.797
Rouge
A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is...
Askatu : 2015.06.11Ospea : 1.959
Tiresia
Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and...
Askatu : 2003.05.20Ospea : 4.247
So Be It
Based on a play by Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed, SO BE IT offers an emotionally searing allegory of present-day Africa's bloody internecine...
Askatu : 1997.01.01Ospea : 0.691
The Masturbators
Images of the Port Dauphine subway terminus are accompanied by a text read aloud about masturbation (branler is slang for jacking off) in this short...
Askatu : 1995.01.01Ospea : 0.757